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5 Jan
Keegan and Greanwold
Check out Keegan and Greanwold at www.greanwold.com Let me know what you think. Text me at 778 389 5866 or email at reywal@shaw.ca
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5 Jan
Children’s Books and Writing
Writing is hard work. I am always impressed by writers such as Robert Parker and Jamie Lee Burke who are so prolific. And then of course, RJ Rowling with the Harry Potter line.
A couple of years ago, I wrote my first children’s’ book based on a character Greanwold that I had developed. Please see www.greanwold.com. It was hard work but I plodded through it. As any beginning writer knows, the next step was publishing. Receptive publishers for new writers are very few and far between; as scarce as hen’s teeth as the saying goes. The only recourse at that time was self publishing which is the route I took. This was moderately successful and I ended up selling about 400 books. Not in the Harry Potter league but OK.
Over the past couple of years I have studied a number of children’s authors and their writing style and their books and decided to rewrite Greanwold. This is now done and I am quite happy with the result. The new book is called Greanwold and the Mystery Cave and is now available for advance purchase online. I have fleshed out the plot for the next two books and hope to have the time and money to write these this year.
Greanwold is fun little guy; hopefully a good example for kids. The fun part of writing is coming up with characters, developing them and putting them down on paper. My bad guy, Reywal for example. I had a great time developing him. An over the top villain in the old fashioned sense, but also kind of likeable. If I can write a series of books, as RJ Rowling has done, I hope to develop the characters more and bring in new ones.
If you would like to purchase a copy of my book, please check out my author website at http://sbpra.com/MichaelJTrigg/ or go to www.greanwold.com.
21 Oct
How Minsoaurs See the World
What the heck is it with human beings? They have this perfectly good world yet many of them seem to want to do their best to wreck it. Why?
What is even more peculiar about humans is their strange contradictory behaviour. In Chile, South America, many, many people spent months rescuing 33 miners who were trapped underground when the mine tunnel collapsed. All 33 men were rescued and what a tribute to humanity that rescue was. Yet in another part of the world, Iraq, men build bombs, attach them to people, sometimes children who then go out into crowded markets and blow themselves up, killing and maiming men, women and children.
There are wonderful people out there, educating themselves, saving lives, helping feed the hungry, educating the illiterate, building shelters for the homeless and needy, developing wonderful ideas and inventions to better humankind. Then there are the destroyers; the humans who build bombs and guns, who kidnap children and make them fight in wars, who starve and enslave kids and their mothers and fathers, who sell drugs to kids and, to adults who should know better.
Is there hope for Planet Earth? Or, will it end up going the same way the Minosaur world went. Kaput!
Over to you earth people.
Greanwold and the Minosaurs
31 Aug
Kids Worldwide Need Support
What is wrong the human race? Since the beginning of civilization, mankind has chosen a world of strife, pettiness, jealousy, power grabbing, conflict and destruction.
The human race seems to be divided in to two distinct groups; those who wish to advance and enhance the human race and those who wish to subdue and destroy it, bringing it down to the level of the dark ages, exercising dictatorial power for a few and enslaving and controlling the masses.
On the positive side, a human being is an amazing animal. Graceful, thoughtful, introspective, idealistic, inventive, a dreamer, an inventor, spiritualistic, just to name a few of the many, many wonderful traits of a human. On the dark side, humans are cruel, narcissistic, destructive, arrogant, inhuman, greedy and genocidal. All too often, these dark traits affect the most vulnerable in society – children. We just have to look at the news reports on some of the war torn countries in the world and wonder how the strife, murder, genocide and slavery affect children. And, what sort of people do those children grow up to be. Not a difficult question to answer. The warlords, the demigods, the dictators and evil warmongers of this world have little regard for the well being of children, seeing them as nothing more than cannon fodder, slaves or sexual toys. To be used, abused and discarded.
The United Nations has passed numerous agreements in recent years, supposedly protecting the rights of children and banning child soldiers, child slavery and sexual exploitation. Are these international treaties having any impact? It seems not. Passing laws is simple. Enforcing these laws is another matter.
International humanitarian law demands children’s rights must be respected during armed conflict but children too often are torn from their families, pressed into serving as soldiers, held in captivity, used slaves or simply killed. The International Red Cross attempts to ensure children in war have adequate access to medical care, food and water. Where possible, children are reunited with their families. The Red Cross also campaigns against the recruitment of child soldiers and endeavors to force governments in conflict of their obligations towards children. Such campaigns however, too often fall on deaf ears with the authorities in too many cases unable or in war torn countries, unwilling to enforce legislation and laws protecting children.
In this time of heightened anxiety over the war in Iraq, children in Western countries are experiencing fear and anxiety too. They see news reports and hear people around them talk about the war and terrorist threats here at home. Unlike adults, children have little experience to help them put news reports on war, terrorism and conflict into perspective. Whatever their age or relationship to adults who are involved in the war effort, children need to be able to express their feelings and concerns about the war.
Wars however, should not be fought by children, should not be waged on children and should not involve children.
31 Aug
Kids Are OK!
It really irritates me when I hear someone sounding off about kids and how modern kids are so disrespectful, so out of control, so narcisstic and so on and it wasn’t like that in their day. Hogwash! No matter what the age of an adult, that adult was once a kid and kids have been kids since the beginning of time. There is no getting around it. Kids today are no different from kids of a hundred years ago. If anything, it is not children who have changed, it’s society. I think kids today have an awful lot more to deal with than their peers of just fifty years ago.
Fifty years ago, life was simple and relatively uncomplicated. No cell phone; no computers, little TV; no video games; no Internet; little organised activities. Kids had to use their imagination and did so very well.
So at what point in a persons’ life, do they lose the joy of being a kid? It is something I have always pondered on.
Go to the local park on a sunny day, or the beach or a playground and whatch kids at play. Pure joy! Kids know how to have fun. And simple fun at that. We have all heard the story of the child who receives a big, expensive toy for Christmas and ends up having more fun with the box than the toy. I saw it with my children. Girls and boys like to play with empty boxes because empty boxes can be anything. A space ship. A truck. A time machine. A castle. A house. You name it. It’s all in the imagination.
Most kids do not have hangups apart from a natural shyness with strangers. Hangups are something you learn as you move from childhood to adulthood. You become self concious. You learn not to be spontaneous. You learn to temper your fun quotient.
I do think today’s children are much more socially responsive than their peers of fity years ago. Pick up the local newpaper and you read a story of a child who has raised money for some charity or cause or children volunters helping out at old folks homes or at animal shelters. Lets face it; kids havent really changed its just adults perceptions and memories that are skewed.
Give kids a break. Ninety nine perecent of children are good kids who grow into good, productive adults. Of course, they then forget they were once kids.
